THIS REVIEW MAY BE OF INTEREST TO STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WHO ARE TASKED WITH LOOKING AT LIFE AND DEATH/THE SOUL AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE. Studying religion can sometimes be a rum business. Take the late Martin Riesebrodt, for example. He was a sociologist who defined the subject (or rather religion itself) as a ‘legitimate form of […]
NOTE: This publication has relevance for two Paper 1 Philosophy of Religion topics, namely, the discussion of near death experiences and the role of evidence in connection with Life and Death/the Soul, and the nature and veridicality of mystical experiences in relation to Religious Experience. SPOILER ALERT: Greyson’s book is an enjoyable and compelling ‘page-turner’.
From the syllabus for the Philosophy of Religion (Paper 1) 3.1 Problem of evil and suffering The nature of the problem across a range of religious traditions, types of evil and suffering, moral and non-moral. The challenge to religious belief posed by the inconsistency of the nature of God and the evident existence of evil
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Views about life and death across a range of religious traditions.
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